It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient. (W. H. Auden)

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

W. H. Auden

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